clearly my parents deprived me greatly as a child. i think all i got for my second birthday was a pre made cake from the grocery store. i doubt my mom even sprang for the personalized name icing. she may have done that herself. max $20.

Damn Tom, just rent out Chuck-E-Cheese for the day or hire a backyard bouncy castle.

Kids go nuts for those bouncy things, but something like that is probably too white trash for TinyTom. Gotta do it up big so the whole world can see what a great father he is. Who cares about what might make the kid happy.